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Meth ‘cook’ turns self in to GJ police

A 29-year-old suspected drug manufacturer, carrying a backpack full of ingredients to make methamphetamine, walked into the Grand Junction Police Department lobby Thursday to turn himself in.

Saying he “needed help,” Andrew Nolen Masdon, 29, 555 Ute Ave., sat down with officers for nearly 30 minutes to talk in detail about where and how he manufactured meth because he “wanted to turn himself in,” according to Masdon’s arrest affidavit.

Masdon told officers he moved between Alabama and Grand Junction frequently but has been here since April 3.

Since returning to Grand Junction, he has had “six cooks” in the area, producing 4.6 grams to half an ounce in each “cook,” depending on how many boxes of Sudafed he used, the affidavit said.

Masdon told officers he manufactured with the “one pot” or “shake and bake” method, “cooking” twice in a moving vehicle, twice in a trailer at Candlewood Trailer Park, once in a Grand Junction apartment and once in a Clifton storage unit.